Log-truck.



No. 886,493. PATBNTED MAY 5. 190s.

' J. W. GERMANY.

LOG TRUCK.

APPLIOATIONHLBD AUG. 26, 1907.

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LOG-TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 26, 1907.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Serial No. 390,218.

To all whom it may conce-rn:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. GERMANY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Cooperville, in the countyof Scott and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and usefulLog-Truck, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a truck or cart for transporting logs from oneplace to another and having for its object, means for quickly placingthe truck in position at one end of the log and then, by means of grabchains and hooks, engage the log which, as the truck is drawn forward,raises the engaged end of the logby means of the grab chains onto thetruck and holds it there while the log is drawn away with one endresting on the ground.

In the accompanying' drawing Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewof the truck in the act of lifting a log. Fig. 2 is a side view of thetruck with a log in position thereon. Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe truck.

Similar reference numerals are used on all thefigures to designate thesame parts.

The numeral 1 indicates a heavy axle on which are mounted at the ends,broad low wheels 2 for carrying the truck. Bolted between the axle 2 anda strong timber 3 above them, are two parallel, forwardly extendingbeams or hounds 4 and 5 separated from each other by a space 6 aboutequal in width to the thickness of one of the hounds. The forward end ofthe hounds are rigidly joined together by a band of iron or steel 7,extending up the outer sides of the hounds and across their to edgesfrom one side to the other and fir y bolted to them.

Pivoted in the space 6 between the hounds 4 and 5 and some distance backfrom their front ends is a pole or tongue 8, the rear end of which ispreferably concentric with the axis of the pivot bolt 8a. A stra 9surrounds the rear end of the pole S wit an eye 10 extending rearwardlytherefrom and is fastened securely by means of a bolt 11 passingvertically through the ends of said strap and the pole.

To strengthen the hounds 4 and 5, a side or brace hound 4a is fastenedbetween the axle 1 and the timber 3 near each wheel and extends inwardlytoward the main hounds and are fastened thereto by a through bolt 51.The timber 3 extends across the truck from wheel to wheel and is firmlyfastened to the axle to prevent it loosening.

. Pivoted to one of the hounds on its under side and near its forwardend is a finger 12 which is long enough to extend across the space 6 andthe other hound. Just back of the rear end of the tongue 8 is a heavymetal plate 13 bolted to the under edges of the hounds to limit thedownward movement of the tongue, the upward movement of the tongue islimited by the band 7 which holds said tongue parallel to the hounds asin Fig. 2. When the hounds are tilted upward, see

Fig. 1, until the tongue is below the finger 12, the latter may then beturned across the tongue thus forming a rest for the hounds if it isdesired to hold them in a slightly elevated position.

Fastened securely to the eye 10 on the strap 9 is a rearwardly extendingchain 14 which after passing under the bolt 5a is divided at a suitableplace into two chains 15, each of said latter chains carrying a grabhook 16 on its end. With these hooks the end of a log is seized anddrawn upon the truck.

In operation, a truck is drawn by a team towards the end of a log. Thetruck is at first in the position indicated in Fig. 2. As it approachesthe log the front ends of the hounds are slightly elevated so that thelinger 12 may be swung between the pole and the hounds, fitting in anotch made in the pole. The truck is now backed against the side of,the'log near one end until the wheels 2 strike it, as shown in Fig. 1.The team is now backed and as the hounds and pole are at an angle toeach other, the former will swing on the axle as a center in an upwarddirection, (see dotted lines in Fig. 1) carrying the pivoted end of theole with it and causing the finger 12 to rop in line with the hound. Thegrab chains are now placed around the log and the hooks driven into it.All being ready, the team is started ahead, drawing down the hounds andraising the end of the log which is brought to rest on the timber 3. Thehounds and the pole are now in line and the finger 12 is then turnedunder the pole so that the hounds cannot rise during any futureoperation. Having placed the log on the truck the latter is turned untilthe axle is at a right angle to the log.which may now be carried off.

When the truck has reached the place forl unloading the log it is driveninto osition, the truck turned with its axle para lel with the log, andafter unfastening the key, the

lfinger for holding said hounds and 1 alle log will fall by its ownWeight. Now by disengaging the grab hooks the truck is ready to getanother log. I-Iaving described the invention what is claimed is:

`1. A log truck comprising an axle, and carrying wheels, forwardlyextending parallel hounds, a pole pivoted between said hounds near theirforward ends, a grab chain and hooks attached .to the rear of said pole,and a pole at an angle to each other.

2. A log truck comprising an axle and supporting wheels, forwardlyextendingparhounds, a su porting timber above said hounds and v ara'lElextending rearwardly from said pole, and meansfor holding said pole inline with, or at. an angle to, the hounds.

el to said axle, the whole being secureA y connected together, a polepivoted near the forward ends of said hounds wand between them, a grabchain and hooks 3. A log truck provided with parallel forwardlyextending hounds, a pole or tongue pivoted between said hounds, a platebolted ,to the under edges thereof, and a band extending over the frontends of said hounds, both plate and band serving as stops to limit themovement of the pole, and a grab chain anl hooks attached to the rearend of the o e. P 4. A log truck provided with parallel forwardlyextending hounds, apole or tongue pivoted between the hounds near theirfront ends and means adapted -to be placed between said tongue andhounds to'hold them at an angle to each other.

In testimony that I claim the'foregoing as my own, I havehereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. GERMANY.

Witnesses:

J. W. HUGHES, T. J. EASTERLING.

